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- It’s written all over your face: To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think
- Team spirit: Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.
- For a big view of inner Earth, catch a few…Geoneutrinos
- This week's table of contents
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September 16th, 2000
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Simple tunes prove as memorable to rhesus monkeys as they do to people. (p. 180)
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Researchers simulating Martian conditions in a test tube discover a likely reason why no organic molecules have yet been found on the surface of the Red Planet. (p. 180)
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A new transplant technique that uses blood transfusions from a sibling combined with decreasing doses of immune-suppressing drugs enables some patients to fight off advanced kidney cancer. (p. 181)
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A novel comparison of 25 pairs of insect lineages finds that sexual conflict plays more of a role in making new species than scientists had realized. (p. 181)
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Genes involved in the immune system also create individualized body odors that allow parents and offspring to recognize each other. (p. 182)
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A solar-electric cell that stands above an acid bath on electrode legs has converted light to hydrogen fuel with unprecedented efficiency. (p. 182)
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Long-term, post-earthquake fluctuations in the temperature and volume of water spewing from hydrothermal vents off the coast of Washington state suggest that the fluid flow feeding such vents may be much more complex than previously thought. (p. 183)
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A new study finds a pressing need to improve the pay and status of postdoctoral scholars. (p. 183)
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In the hands of scientists, kites do serious data gathering. (p. 186)
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The science of decision making grapples with sex, race, and power. (p. 190)
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Archaeologists find a sprawling palace and other surprises at a 1,300-year-old Maya site in Guatemala. (p. 184)
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A new mathematical model raises the concern that switching to transgenic herbicide-tolerant crops could deprive birds of weed seeds. (p. 184)
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A second test of a strain of corn genetically engineered to make its own insecticide finds potential for harm to monarch butterfly caterpillars. (p. 184)
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A researcher designs the ultimate laptop, stretching the laws of physics to their limits to achieve blazing computation rates. (p. 189)
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A new type of robotic system that designs and produces robotic offspring may represent a first step toward self-replicating "artificial life." (p. 189)
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A tiny traffic island for electrons promises to serve as an extraordinarily sensitive detector of magnetic fields. (p. 189)
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